The ancient mummy of a mysterious young woman, known as the Ukok Princess, is finally returning home to the Altai Republic this month.

Economic crisis to blame for delay in plan to breathe new environmentally-friendly life into former Lake Baikal polluter.

No bikini ban here as Russian contests reject the cover-up in the rest of the world. 

Up to 500 mother bears a year give birth on remote Wrangel island, also the last place to see woolly mammoths.

'Absolutely stunning' ancient ornaments discovered with no known comparisons, presenting a puzzle for archeologists: which culture made this?

It was in August 1917 - 95 years ago this month - that the abdicated emperor and his fearful family departed Tyumen into their Siberian exile.

These stunning images were taken by Russian photographer Alexander Tyryshkin on a unique Siberian lake that never freezes, no matter how cold the winter.

'All forest wildfires extinguished' in Siberian Federal District, say officials, but peat flames still raging.

Revealing pictures of Siberian ruins as new royal theory may explain this remote 8th century summer schloss.

Scientist warns of 'environmental disaster' due to 'irreversible' pollution in world's deepest and oldest lake.